First open ArcGis10.6, click the small plus sign with a yellow background, and add a base map.
You can choose the color version of the map of China, then double-click, and turn the mouse wheel to find your own city.
Click - Directory, right click in the newly created folder - New - shapefile.
Select polyline as the format, first draw the main river roads to have a rough outline. You can choose a coordinate system that matches the base map, and click OK.
The display-opacity of the basemap and the new layer are both selected at 50%.
Find the editor, click to start editing, draw the corresponding polyline according to the direction of the road and river, and get the rough outline of the city.
When you're done, save your edits and stop editing.
Next, right-click the new folder to create a new shp file, select "Surface" as the feature type, and start editing. According to habits, the construction tool can choose faces, rectangles, circles, hand-painted (easy to bend), auto-complete faces, etc.
After finishing, click to stop editing, open the attribute table, create a new field (select text for the field type, the length can be longer), start editing - set the names of the corresponding communities, units, and buildings. save.
Then mark the elements, and you can see the drawn shp map.
It can be adjusted according to the base map and the actual distribution of the districts to separate and merge the planes.
The above is the method of creating the shp map of your own city in the most primitive way. Welcome to exchange and share the experience of generating maps more conveniently and quickly! Thanks!
Tree Valley Database Encyclopedia (updated on August 16, 2023)